This project were carried out from April 17th to December 31st, 2008. We inspected 121 temples and the complete ratio is 100%. 97% of the temples set up furnaces, but only 4 temples have pollution control instrument. The reasons are short of usage and finance. In according with statistic, the temple sold 7084.58kg ghost money each month, which may bring pollution quantity about 77.9 ton of PM10、17.7 ton of SOx、857.3 ton of CO and 19.8 ton of NOx every month. 66.4% of the temples are willing to cope with the policy and reduce or stop the usage of ghost money and incense, 31.9% of them are still considering. Only 1.7% of them refuse to cooperate. 75.95% of temples believe the best way of dealing with the ghost money is simply to use less. 87% of the temples are willing to cope with the policy and reduce the usage of ghost money and incense, however, only 4% of the temple will consider to use the ghost money of bigger denomination. The ghost money gathered to burn in festivals this year is 142.14 ton. 1.56 ton of PM10、0.36 ton of SOx、17.2 ton of CO and 0.40 ton of NOx are reduced. For the guidance and assistance, except for those signed in 2007, there are 4 temples, Wen-cai Dian, Yi- huang Gong, Jiu- hua Di-cang An, Cheng-huang Miao, agreed to gather ghost money regularly and burn in an incinerator and also maintain the pollution control instrument. We also assisted Yi- huang Gong to set up water wash preventing facility to reduce the pollution. Shun-xing Gong, Peng-si Gong and Yao-tian Fu all signed separately to agree to reduce the usage of the ghost money and incense in July, August and October. For the outdoor burning, up to end of Dec 31st, 2008, 1820 times of inspection were carried out, the ratio is 100%. During the inspection, 37 count of on- the-spot burning cases, 74 count of after burning cases. In the on- the-spot burning cases, straw was found more often than another material, the ratio is 37.8%. Plants rated second. The ratio is 24.3%. As for the after burning cases, plants were found more often than another material, the ratio is 48.6%. Woods and Leaf rated second. The ratio is 21.6%. Da-xi Village was found where the most cases happened, 24.3%. Hu-nei village rated second, 10.8%. There are 125 accusing cases. All of them were inspected. The rate of execution is 100%. Among the cases, 29 of them are on-the-spot burning, 23 are of after burning cases. The ratio of tracing down is 41.6%. In the on- the-spot burning cases, straw was found more often than another material, the ratio is 51.7%. Solid junk rated second. The ratio is 17.2%. As for the after burning cases, plants were found more often than another material, the ratio is 39.1%. Woods rated second. The ratio is 17.4%. To enhance public awareness of outdoor burning prohibition, propaganda cars broadcasted the tape around the rice fields and villages which often found outdoor burning a week before the first and second rice harvest season during June to October 2008. In addition, flags said to forbid outdoor burning were set up in the major rice fields, and straw re-use brochures were handed out to the farmers.

outdoor burn,temples pollution, pollution control